indolent

Meaning

1. Habitually lazy, procrastinating, or resistant to physical labor.
2. Inducing laziness.
3. Causing little or no physical pain; progressing slowly; inactive (of an ulcer, etc.).
4. Healing slowly.

Synonyms

lazy

slothful

idle

sluggish

inactive

otiose

slow

work-shy

shiftless

languid

lethargic

faineant

loafer

easy-going

idler

tardy

nonchalant

oscitant

painless

poky

procrastinate

slack

slow-going

sluggard

sluggardly

soft

supine

unenterprising

unenthusiastic

vagabond

weakfish

accidious

stick in the mud

not energetic

without energy

void of energy

nonenterprising

unacquisitive

unindustrious

desidious

atonic

lither

bum

careless

dilatory

drowsy

enervated

fat

flaccid

indifferent

inert

insensitive

laggard

lazybones

limp

logy

lymphatic

Translations

indolent

indolente

perezoso

tembel

faul

traag

paresseux

träge

nonchalant

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɪn.də.lənt/

Etymology

From French indolent or directly from Late Latin indolēns, from in- (“not”) + dolēns (“hurting”), from doleo (“to hurt”). The later sense of “living easily, slothful” perhaps developed in French.